Tony Abbott is trying to reassure Australian culture makers that he’s not anti-arts, despite having slashed $60 million in spending on the arts sector and pulling another $68 million away from the Australia Council for the Arts and Screen Australia.
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Carlos Acosta Makes It Official: He’s Retiring From Ballet
“Two more years in classical. Next two seasons will be the final seasons. I will make a creation with the Royal Ballet, Carmen, and that will be my swan song. Then I probably will carry on doing some contemporary works. And then maybe I will employ a choreographer to choreography me sitting down.”
Herb Jeffries, 100, Hollywood’s First Black Singing Cowboy
“With a towering physique and a square jaw,” not to mention musical chops honed with Duke Ellington’s band, “Mr. Jeffries was perfectly suited to capitalize on the singing-cowboy movie craze that Gene Autry and Roy Rogers popularized in the 1930s. Black performers … had appeared in silent westerns, but the Stetson-sporting, six-gun-toting Mr. Jeffries inaugurated the concept of a black singer riding in the saddle as the hero.”
So The Brits Don’t Want To Teach Steinbeck Or Harper Lee Anymore? They Should Teach These American Writers Instead
Literary historian John Sutherland offers a list of ten works, by authors from from Herman Melville to Toni Morrison to Emily Dickinson to Arthur Miller to James Fenimore Cooper. (Really?)
Top Posts From AJBlogs 05.26.14
“The Idea Can Do Without Art”
AJBlog: PostClassic | Published 2014-05-26
L3C’s in the arts
AJBlog: For What it’s Worth | Published 2014-05-27
The Hidden News Behind The Saudi Museum Boom
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts | Published 2014-05-27
Beyond the peter meter
AJBlog: Performance Monkey | Published 2014-05-26
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